By: Fraser S.B. No. 640 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to display of the POW/MIA flag. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Section 2165.006 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 2165.006. DISPLAY OF POW/MIA FLAG. (a) In this 1-6 section, "POW/MIA flag" means the National League of Families 1-7 POW/MIA flag identified by 36 U.S.C. Section 189. 1-8 (b) The POW/MIA flag shall be displayed at each state office 1-9 building on: 1-10 (1) the third Saturday in May, "Armed Forces Day"; 1-11 (2) the last Monday in May, "Memorial Day"; 1-12 (3) the 14th day of June, "Flag Day"; 1-13 (4) the fourth day of July, "Independence Day"; 1-14 (5) the 11th day of November, "Veterans Day"; and 1-15 (6) "National POW/MIA Recognition Day." 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.